Category: Blog

Recently, Tom McFarlin brought the idea of innovating WordPress themes to center stage. I always find his posts thought-provoking and I felt this one in particular warranted a blog post of my own. Sorry for not leaving you the comment love, Tom. The following isn’t intended to debunk his idea of innovation or why we should…

One day you woke up and said to yourself that you wanted to control our own destiny. No more listening to the man or long hours stuck in a cubical. “This podcast said I could do it!” you shout. So you went to work. You found your first few customers through friends of friends and…

My father grew up tinkering with cars and I grew up tinkering with servers. Back in the day, I was a computer salesman at Circuit City. Small Office/Home Office was the name of the department – team SOHO. Funny, as if people were only buying PC’s and technology for office work! A customer came in…

Knowledge is power. What you’re about to read is not a magic bullet to beating out your competition. It’s also not some secret NSA-like dive into their data or secret documents. This data that is freely available to you, me, and everyone else on the web. I’m just stringing together data points that lead to…

I listen to a lot of podcasts. In fact, my Stitcher app reports that I have over 1,000 hours of listening time since I started using the service. That doesn’t count when I had used iTunes, listened directly on a website or the hours of YouTube channels I consume. I love podcasts. I love listening…

Today, I’d like to talk about embracing business. As creators of product, we’re always after the shiny object. If you’re like me, we’re constantly chasing the opportunity. Chasing an opportunity leads to a lot of conversations, hanging out at events, and spending time prepping your story. All the while we’re building the product, adding features, and pulling the 16 hour shifts.…

I’m always surprised to find digital business owners that are not social savvy. Actually, maybe I’m not anymore. I couldn’t begin to tally the amount of no response situations I find myself stumbling into. Be it an e-mail or a DM, there’s an alarming amount of business owners that just are not embracing social. If millionaire, 400+ employee…

All too often we get lost in thinking about creating content for a larger audience to consume. We worry about headlines, retweets, and shares. Content is king and it’s the hottest advice for driving traffic to your website in today’s new search optimization world. The thing is, it doesn’t really help our well-being. Sure, checking off “publish blog post”…